Pothi Kalimuthu

I'm passionate about WordPress performance optimization and follow the best practices of Google's PageSpeed. If you have a VPS or a dedicated server, I can deploy (and tweak) Nginx, Varnish, APC, mod_pagespeed or whatever it takes to speed up your WordPress powered site.

My core competencies lie in proving failover hosting solutions for WordPress powered sites and in providing latency based hosting solutions for visitors from all geographical areas.

Technologies

WordPress Performance Optimization Consultant

March 2008 - Current

linuxwordpressmod-pagespeednginxvarnish

I'm a freelance WordPress / Web performance optimization consultant. My responsibilities, that I set myself, include day to day management of servers, keeping servers monitored all the time, keeping servers tweaked on a weekly basis and make sure everything is secure in general.

While WordPress is a great application and provides a number of abilities to scale, most servers that are in use today aren't ready to scale up a WordPress site. So, I don't usually use the traditional Apache for any servers (even though I have a lot of respect for it). If it is required, I use a very minimal version of Apache 2.4 with event mpm.

In most cases, I just use Nginx that is very efficient in handling static files in general. Where Nginx or Apache 2.4 is used as a web server, I almost always deploy a caching layer too, with the help of Varnish. Finally, for page optimization, there is mod_pagespeed. A combination of all the above, and following other best practices, can literally make any WordPress site to be faster than ever.

Chief Coordinating Faculty,
Institute of Language Management Pvt Ltd

May 2004 - November 2007

english

I was the Chief Coordinating Faculty managing a team of 10 Faculties. My primary responsibility includes teaching students to speak fluently and correctly in English!

We used different techniques and tools to achieve the same. It was a fun environment where I learned a lot that helped me in my future career as a WordPress hosting specialist where I've been dealing with live sites and live environment.

Education

BE,
Madurai Kamaraj University

1997 - 2000

linuxscriptingc

While I have achieved none in my college, and dropped out earlier than required, I found my passion in my college years.

I was and still am passionate about Linux, Unix, scripting, and automation.

While this seems a little project, it is an area that is missed by lot. WordPress providers hundreds of options to improve the performance of a site. In this project, I have identified certain areas that may fit most WordPress sites!

Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress is probably one of the popular plugins in WordPress plugins repository. At the time of this writing, it has been downloaded over 8 million times! It is not a small feat by any means. However, if it is used incorrectly, it can drag your site’s performance considerably.

Articles & Blogs

Vim can be tough for beginners. If you're struggling along with my Vim 101 posts, but still haven't felt confident enough to use it every day, then my advice is to be patient. Here are some reasons to keep learning Vim.